Companion (CMG)

• Alfred Lawrence Friis – of Tauranga. For very valuable services to the dairy industry.
• Roy Granville McElroy – of Auckland. For very valuable services to the community.

• Roy McElroy

Knight Commander (KBE)

Civil division

• Thomas Harcourt Clarke Caughey OBE – of Auckland. For outstanding services to health administration.

• Sir Harcourt Caughey

Commander (CBE)

Civil division

• Harold Iver Austad MBE – of Wellington. For very valuable services to athletics.
• Alan Fleming Gilkison – of Invercargill. For very valuable services to the community.
• George Searle – of Wellington. For very valuable services as Director-General of the New Zealand Post Office.
• Alan Stewart – of Palmerston North. For very valuable services to education.

Military division

• Commodore Edward Courtney Thorne – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major-General Leslie Arthur Pearce OBE – Brigadiers' List (Regular Force).

• Alan Stewart

Officer (OBE)

Civil division

• Neil Colquhoun Begg MB FRCP – of Dunedin. For valuable services to the community.
• George James Brocklehurst – of Wellington. For valuable services as chairman of the Social Security Commission.
• Maurice Alister Brook – of Auckland. For valuable services, as a judge of the Māori Land Court and judge of the High Court of the Cook Islands.
• Ian Donald Arthur Cameron MBE – of Wairarapa. For valuable services to the community.
• Arnold Edwin Clark – of Eastbourne. For valuable services as chairman of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council.
• Duncan Sandford Cox – of Auckland. For valuable services to tourism and the accountancy profession.
• Selwyn Osgood Field – of Geneva, Switzerland. For valuable services to youth.
• Margaret Katherine Holt – of Hawke's Bay. For valuable services to the community.
• David Fiander Horlor – of Nelson. For valuable services to education.
• Wiremu Peka Kerekere – of Wellington. For valuable services to the Māori people.
• Horace McGregor Kirk – of Auckland. For valuable services to the community.
• Malcolm Arnold Rickard – of Wellington. For valuable services to broadcasting and music.
• Margaret Grace Turnbull – of Wellington. For valuable services as chief commissioner, Girl Guides Association.
• William Leslie Francis Utley MD FRCS – of Christchurch. For valuable services to surgery.

Military division

• Surgeon Commander Malcolm Hames Watson VRD – Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve.
• Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Ian Launder – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Wing Commander William Neil Alexander McKay – Royal New Zealand Air Force.

Member (MBE)

Civil division

• George Albert Benson – of Wanganui. For services to athletics.
• Hugh Morrish Besley – of Taupō. For services to local government.
• Eileen Brown – of New Plymouth. For services to the community.
• Denver Harold Calder MB ChB – of Hamilton. For services to the community.
• Ronald James Doherty – of Woodville. For services to the trade union movement.
• Leslie Ernest Farr – of Rangiora. For services to local government.
• Charles Edmund Forsyth – of West Otago. For services to the community.
• Matthew Green – of Feilding. For services to local government.
• George Davidson Griffiths – of Christchurch. For services to the community.
• Ethel Winifred Jessie Harwood – of Rotorua. For services to education.
• Muir James McGlashen – of Richmond. For services to local government.
• John Alexander McNeish – of Brunner. For services to the community.
• Moya Clare McTamney – of Masterton. For services as a nurse in South Vietnam.
• Henry Francis Miller – of Russell. For services to local government
• Alfred Benjamin Muggeridge – of South Taranaki. For services to the community.
• John Joseph Nimon – of Havelock North. For services to the community.
• Alfred Clarence Paine – of Invercargill. For services to the community.
• Richard Charles Parker – of Gisborne. For services to local government.
• Harry Leonard Riley – of Golden Bay. For services to local government.
• Herbert Donald Robertson VD MB ChB – of Wanganui. For services to the community.
• The Reverend Ewing Campbell Stevens – of Dunedin. For services as a minister of religion.
• Henry Charles-Tod MB ChB – of Cambridge. For services to the community.
• Ernest Cecil Wright – of Canterbury. For services to the community.

Military division

• Lieutenant Commander Francis Edward John Mason – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Stores Warrant Officer Noel Lindsay Walker – Royal New Zealand Navy.
• Major Andrew Lawrence Fleming ED – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Territorial Force).
• Major (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Peter Gibson Hotop – Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment (Regular Force).
• Captain (Temporary Major) Eruini Taharua Te Moananui ED – Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps (Territorial Force).
• Squadron Officer Beverley Ethne Bowler – Women's Royal New Zealand Air Force.
• Warrant Officer Thomas Methven – Royal New Zealand Air Force.